In 2020, 74 teaching faculties from TKU served as directors, supervisors, non-positional directors, or chairpersons of non-governmental organizations or enterprises, assisting in cooperation to promote the implementation of sustainable development goals and achieve permanent developments through student volunteer projects and research projects. The key points of the sustainable development goals are summarized as follows:
1. Student Aspiration Program
Through professional knowledge and ability service-learning courses, the Department of Management Sciences assisted 2 non-profit organizations in fundraising and NGOs to implement sustainable development projects; the Department of Educational Technology and the Department of Statistics assists in the establishment of websites, digital learning, and other matters; the Department of Mass Communication assists the foundation with creative social marketing proposals.
The Cambodian Service Study Group went to Kampot Province, Cambodia to provide Chinese and computer teaching services and local teaching faculties' training, with a total of 150 people served; the Thai Service Study Group went to Bang Nam Trang School and Nansai School in Phengsilaok, Thailand to conduct Basic Mandarin teaching, practical life courses, delivery of village materials, interviews, and exchanges, serving a total of 350 people.
The students of the College of Liberal Arts are assisted by the International Jane Goodall Education and Conservation Institute to implement the graduation project "Fun in the Forest," which advocates getting closer to forests and animals in a correct manner, integrating them into daily life using multimedia and technology, learning to coexist with nature, and promote the knowledge of forest protection.
The College of Foreign Languages & Literatures cooperated with the Tamsui Historic Sites Museum, started with student service learning, combined with translation theory and skills, to translate the Chinese webpage guides of the Tamsui Historic Sites Museum into Spanish.
The Department of English Language and Culture from the College of Global Development cooperates with 5 different local educational institutions or NGOs to lead students to enter local community institutions in a project-based way, understanding the needs of the local, and continued cooperation to create a feasible operation mode, obtained public welfare resources from outside sources, and then achieved the goal in a team manner; in addition to the practical integration of the international experience and language ability of the junior year abroad with the local cultural application, the SDG4 high-quality education can be more thoroughly practiced with the use of the goal of unity and social participation.
2. Research Project
The College of Business and Management researches the "Influence of Natural Disasters on Managers' Compensation" to explore whether natural disasters are a non-monetary factor that affects managers' salaries, to increase public attention to the risks of natural disasters and their impact on corporate governance policies.
The College of Global Development cooperated with the Suao Township Office to plan the vision of smart urban and rural areas and cooperated with the Department of Innovative Information and Technology to determine the main direction of the Suao Cold Spring Intelligent Voice Interactive Display Machine and Simple Dialogue Puzzle Game Machine. In addition, the department cooperated with the Lanyang Museum to discuss the use of the Internet of Things, mobile devices, digital interactive machines, etc., to enhance the interactive environment between the museum and tourists, and the creation of a voice interactive commemorative photo shooting site with the assistance of teachers and students from the Department of Innovative Information and Technology, the procurement of hardware were completed in 2020 and the development of relative software commenced.